DOI Artikel:
Edgar, Campbell Cowan: Greek sculpture from Tell Timal
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9427#0011
LE MUSÉE ÉGYPTIEN.
PLANCHES I-V.
GREEK SCULPTURE FROM TELL TIM AI.
The ten heads reproduced on plates I-V, together with a large number of other
objects, marble and alabaster, were found at Tell Timai in February, 1908.
The discovery was made by a gang of workmen who were extracting bricks
from the ruins of the ancient town. It is a pleasure to record tbat no theft took
place or was even attempted. Our ghafir was immediately informed and took
possession of the objects found, while the Omdeh and the Molahiz of police
guarded the spot until the Inspector of the Service arrived from Zagazig. The
Inspecter at once set to and excavated the place, finding many additional things,
and we afterwards continued the work until a large pièce of the adjoining
ground had been laid bare, at a total cost of L.E. 11,170 mill. An adéquate
reward was obtained from Government for the workmen and the ghafir : for it
is only by tins means, by the continuai gïving of rewards and the impression
thereby created, that we can hope to secure a fair proportion of the accidentai
finds made by the sebakhin and other people.
The place where the heads were found lies in the southernmost of the two
adjacent tells which once were Mendes and Thmouis and are now known as
Tell Roba and Tell Timai.
Under the Pharaohs the
northern town with its
large temenos and temple,
the ruins of which are still
an imposing sight, was no
doubt the larger and more
important; but in later
times it was superseded bv „■ c ,
± J big. 1. Scaie 1 :200.
the southern town, and
we find in Thmouis a far greater quantity of Greek and Roman antiquities.
From the latter site baked bricks innumerahle bave been extracted by the
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PLANCHES I-V.
GREEK SCULPTURE FROM TELL TIM AI.
The ten heads reproduced on plates I-V, together with a large number of other
objects, marble and alabaster, were found at Tell Timai in February, 1908.
The discovery was made by a gang of workmen who were extracting bricks
from the ruins of the ancient town. It is a pleasure to record tbat no theft took
place or was even attempted. Our ghafir was immediately informed and took
possession of the objects found, while the Omdeh and the Molahiz of police
guarded the spot until the Inspector of the Service arrived from Zagazig. The
Inspecter at once set to and excavated the place, finding many additional things,
and we afterwards continued the work until a large pièce of the adjoining
ground had been laid bare, at a total cost of L.E. 11,170 mill. An adéquate
reward was obtained from Government for the workmen and the ghafir : for it
is only by tins means, by the continuai gïving of rewards and the impression
thereby created, that we can hope to secure a fair proportion of the accidentai
finds made by the sebakhin and other people.
The place where the heads were found lies in the southernmost of the two
adjacent tells which once were Mendes and Thmouis and are now known as
Tell Roba and Tell Timai.
Under the Pharaohs the
northern town with its
large temenos and temple,
the ruins of which are still
an imposing sight, was no
doubt the larger and more
important; but in later
times it was superseded bv „■ c ,
± J big. 1. Scaie 1 :200.
the southern town, and
we find in Thmouis a far greater quantity of Greek and Roman antiquities.
From the latter site baked bricks innumerahle bave been extracted by the
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